Kafka connector- cannot stop rebalancing

Question

I am using kafka connector confluent 3.0.1 version.I create a new group named new-group and there are about 20 topics on it.most of these topics is busy.But It is a pity that when I start the connector framework , the system cannot stop rebalanceing , about 2 minute a rebalance for all topics. I don't know the reason. Some of the error message is :

[2017-01-03 21:43:57,718] ERROR Commit of WorkerSinkTask{id=new-connector-0} offsets threw an unexpected exception:  (org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask:180)
org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.CommitFailedException: Commit cannot be completed since the group has already rebalanced and assigned the partitions to another member. This means that the time between subsequent calls to poll() was longer than the configured session.timeout.ms, which typically implies that the poll loop is spending too much time message processing. You can address this either by increasing the session timeout or by reducing the maximum size of batches returned in poll() with max.poll.records.
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator$OffsetCommitResponseHandler.handle(ConsumerCoordinator.java:578)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator$OffsetCommitResponseHandler.handle(ConsumerCoordinator.java:519)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:679)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator$CoordinatorResponseHandler.onSuccess(AbstractCoordinator.java:658)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture$1.onSuccess(RequestFuture.java:167)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.fireSuccess(RequestFuture.java:133)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.RequestFuture.complete(RequestFuture.java:107)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient$RequestFutureCompletionHandler.onComplete(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:426)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient.poll(NetworkClient.java:278)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.clientPoll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:360)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:224)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:192)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerNetworkClient.poll(ConsumerNetworkClient.java:163)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.commitOffsetsSync(ConsumerCoordinator.java:404)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.commitSync(KafkaConsumer.java:1058)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.doCommit(WorkerSinkTask.java:247)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.commitOffsets(WorkerSinkTask.java:293)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.closePartitions(WorkerSinkTask.java:421)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.access$1100(WorkerSinkTask.java:54)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask$HandleRebalance.onPartitionsRevoked(WorkerSinkTask.java:465)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.onJoinPrepare(ConsumerCoordinator.java:283)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.AbstractCoordinator.ensureActiveGroup(AbstractCoordinator.java:212)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.internals.ConsumerCoordinator.ensurePartitionAssignment(ConsumerCoordinator.java:345)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.pollOnce(KafkaConsumer.java:977)
        at org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer.poll(KafkaConsumer.java:937)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.pollConsumer(WorkerSinkTask.java:305)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.poll(WorkerSinkTask.java:222)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.iteration(WorkerSinkTask.java:170)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerSinkTask.execute(WorkerSinkTask.java:142)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.doRun(WorkerTask.java:140)
        at org.apache.kafka.connect.runtime.WorkerTask.run(WorkerTask.java:175)
        at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
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I don't know if it has anything to do with the continuous rebalance.

I know that if the KafkaConsumer.poll() is longer that the configured timeout , the kafka will revoke the partition and thus the re-balance is triggered,but I am quite sure that poll of each time is not that long. Anybody can give me some clues?

Answer 1

I think max.poll.records can solve this.It is to tune the number of records that must be handled on every loop iteration. In 0.10 there is max.poll.records, which places an upper bound on the number of records returned from each call.

Also as per Confluent, consumer.poll() should have fairly high session timeout for example 30 to 60 seconds.

You might also want to fine tune:

session.timeout.ms
heartbeat.interval.ms 
max.partition.fetch.bytes